Random Cubs Musings: Minor League Edition

[Guest]

Any autograph collectors here? $15 gets you the Tennessee card set for this year and one of them signed, featuring Bryant, Soler, and Johnson among others: http://store.smokiesbaseball.com/store/default/14/398/

[Clem Fandango]

I'm not normally an autograph hound, but I definitely want to try and get to some minor league games to grab Soler, Russell, Bryant, Baez, and Manny here in the coming weeks.

[Guest]

http://www.beyondtheboxscore.com/2014/7/14/5862042/mlb-prospects-iso-bb-k-javier-baez-introduction

[Guest]

Cj Edwards ‏@CEdwardsSBS 36m

23 is my date to get back on the mound ⚾️

[jersey cubs fan]

Cj Edwards ‏@CEdwardsSBS 36m

23 is my date to get back on the mound ⚾️

 

What month?

[Clem Fandango]

Cj Edwards ‏@CEdwardsSBS 36m

23 is my date to get back on the mound ⚾️

 

What month?

 

He meant 2023

[Guest]

I'm not normally an autograph hound, but I definitely want to try and get to some minor league games to grab Soler, Russell, Bryant, Baez, and Manny here in the coming weeks.

Last season I grabbed Almora, Shoulders, and Candelario at Appleton.

[Guest]

i had planned to go see schwarber in a couple of weeks but so much for that.

 

this KC thing really isn't that cool when everyone good is awesome enough to practically skip playing there.

 

oh well, at least i didn't end up like this guy i know who went to iowa for the DH having no idea that baez and bryant were gone for the futures game.

[Guest]

All the usual Loxas disclaimers but this is sort of a fun post

 

http://www.chicagonow.com/cubs-insider/2014/07/exclusive-video-of-cubs-prospects-from-daytona-cubs-game-on-714-vs-jupiter-hammerheads/

 

 

EDIT - Nevermind, it's not actually Loxas

[Guest]

Almora follows up his cycle with catching a shark of some sort

 

[rawaction]

I heard he ate the shark and will miss a week due to explosive diarrhea.

[Guest]

that's surely gonna result in those hemorrhoids acting up

[minnesotacubsfan]

Dogfish, blah

[KingCubsFan]

Fangraphs updated Top 25. For some reason, they seem to think Baez will be a RFer.

 

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/top-25-prospects-a-midseason-update/

[Guest]

After Lindor becomes Jordy Mercer at the MLB level I'm going to create an twitter account and just tweet at everyone on the Lindor list every day with a link to their ranking of him that high and a link to his BBRef page. This may be some of the worst cognitive dissonance yet, "sure he's K'ing 6% more often, but he raised his IsoP to .116!"

[muntjack]

Aaron Sanchez on that list just baffles me. I know he has a high ceiling, but I think he busts about 75% of the time.

 

Also, all these recent lists are going to look silly when Soler is the mammoth diesel engine powering the greatest lineup in history.

[apete6]

After Lindor becomes Jordy Mercer at the MLB level I'm going to create an twitter account and just tweet at everyone on the Lindor list every day with a link to their ranking of him that high and a link to his BBRef page. This may be some of the worst cognitive dissonance yet, "sure he's K'ing 6% more often, but he raised his IsoP to .116!"

 

Yeah, Baez has had a "terrible season" and is basically even with him in OPS. I understand, speed and defense, etc, but come on.

[Guest]

After Lindor becomes Jordy Mercer at the MLB level I'm going to create an twitter account and just tweet at everyone on the Lindor list every day with a link to their ranking of him that high and a link to his BBRef page. This may be some of the worst cognitive dissonance yet, "sure he's K'ing 6% more often, but he raised his IsoP to .116!"

 

Yeah, Baez has had a "terrible season" and is basically even with him in OPS. I understand, speed and defense, etc, but come on.

 

Not a big fan of Lindor, but it's more than just that. it's the contact and walks.

[KingCubsFan]

After Lindor becomes Jordy Mercer at the MLB level I'm going to create an twitter account and just tweet at everyone on the Lindor list every day with a link to their ranking of him that high and a link to his BBRef page. This may be some of the worst cognitive dissonance yet, "sure he's K'ing 6% more often, but he raised his IsoP to .116!"

Does Hak-Ju Lee have a Twitter account? Because if not, we should create one and tweet at Keith Law.

[CubsWin]

I'm not normally an autograph hound, but I definitely want to try and get to some minor league games to grab Soler, Russell, Bryant, Baez, and Manny here in the coming weeks.

Last season I grabbed Almora, Shoulders, and Candelario at Appleton.

I wouldn't necessarily be admitting this publicly, but...

[illiniguy]

I'm not normally an autograph hound, but I definitely want to try and get to some minor league games to grab Soler, Russell, Bryant, Baez, and Manny here in the coming weeks.

Manny, lol. Yeah better go to the game on July 24th when they do the team signing. Otherwise it probably isn't happening.

[Guest]

Looks like Javy is going to stick at 2B for at least a little while

 

"He looked like an All-Star shortstop playing second base. You can put an All-Star shortstop anywhere in the infield," Pevey said. "He had the most range of anybody I've seen at second base in a long time."

 

The Cubs have Starlin Castro in the Major Leagues and acquired defensively advanced shortstop Addison Russell -- now their No. 3 prospect -- along with No. 9 Billy McKinney in a July 4 swap with Oakland for Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel. No. 7 Arismendy Alcantara, who played 70 games at second base for the I-Cubs this year, was promoted to Chicago on July 9.

 

"I'm working with [baez] there over the next several days," Pevey said. "We'll see him mainly at second base at least over the next several days."

Baez smacked his 15th homer of the year during a six-pitch at-bat against Robbie Ross to lead off the fourth inning.

 

"What I was mainly happy about was him shortening up his swing with two strikes," said Pevey. "He stayed on the fastball. The fastball was elevated, and he hit it about 430 feet to straight-away center."

 

His seventh-inning double off Scott Richmond nearly left the yard in left too.

 

"Oh, my gosh," Pevey said. "It was a breaking ball that got left up in the zone. He was a little up front with his body, but he kept his hands back.

 

"I thought it hit the top of the wall and ricocheted and hit the foul pole, but I guess the umpires had a better view of it than I did."

 

Baez also plated Brett Jackson with a ninth-inning fly to center.

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

I wonder what Brett Jackson and Josh Vitters are thinking about these days.

[Clem Fandango]

I wonder what Brett Jackson and Josh Vitters are thinking about these days.

 

Probably starting to think about opening up some pizza joints somewhere together

[Tangled Up in Plaid]

I wonder what Brett Jackson and Josh Vitters are thinking about these days.

 

Probably starting to think about opening up some pizza joints somewhere together

haha.